Director, Litigation and Regulatory (Fintech)

Location: Fully remote within the United States, with meaningful overlap with Central Time. Occasional travel is required for team meetings, regulator meetings, mediations, hearings, and depositions.

Salary: $165,000–$2,100,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded consumer finance company building interest-free buy-now-pay-later products and pursuing a de novo national bank charter.

What you will do

• Manage consumer litigation, class actions, arbitrations, commercial disputes, small-claims matters, and pre-litigation disputes from intake through resolution.
• Direct outside counsel and own litigation strategy, budgets, staffing, discovery, litigation holds, ESI protocols, settlements, and productions.
• Manage civil investigative demands, subpoenas, examinations, and inquiries from the CFPB, FTC, state attorneys general, and state financial regulators.
• Draft regulatory responses, white papers, and advocacy submissions; participate in regulator meetings and support bank-charter supervisory readiness.
• Own the privacy and data protection framework, including policies, data mapping, records of processing, retention, vendor data flows, and privacy rights requests.
• Build AI-enabled legal workflows, templates, automations, and governance practices while advising product, marketing, engineering, collections, compliance, and operations.

Requirements

• Law degree and active bar membership in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction; in-house counsel registration must be satisfied where applicable.
• 5–7 years of combined law firm and in-house legal experience.
• Substantive consumer financial services experience with Reg Z, Reg B, FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, and UDAAP.
• Demonstrated ownership of litigation matters and regulatory inquiries, including experience managing matters independently.
• Required experience with Claude or equivalent large language model tools, including building AI workflows for legal research, review, drafting, and communication.
• Must be located in the United States and able to maintain meaningful overlap with Central Time.

Nice to have

• Experience in BNPL, fintech, consumer lending, banking, or bank-charter work.
• Experience with de novo charter applications, bank supervisory examinations, or bank partnership models.
• CIPP/US credential or substantial privacy-practice experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, autonomous legal team operating as a practical business partner in a fast-moving company.
• AI is used as a core operating model, with an expectation that legal professionals build and scale internal tooling.
• Unlimited PTO, volunteer hours, and sabbatical opportunities.
• Life, short- and long-term disability, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 6% match and discounted LifeTime gym membership.